Totally agree. Facebook is dotcom equivalent of AOL. Hopefully it goes away.
I could not agree more. It started out by copying myspace which copied friendster which copied...
“Facebook has destroyed the open web”
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#22"Against this global community" "Going against progress" Sorry Zuck, but shut the fuck up. All you want is more money and power. A great example is the free "internet" initiative he's pushing; all to lock people in Facebook. This guy truly is, the world's biggest hypocrite.
The DNA of that person relates to a time when he called the users of fb "dumb f*cks"
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#23The article is as stupid as the website it's on is. Value-added sharing mechanisms that take the expertise out of creating useful Internet content does not de-democratize the Internet. You are still as free as before to make your own websites and share your content the way it was done before Facebook. Facebook is popular but that can't be held against it. More generally, populism by itself does not threaten democracy…
> You are still as free as before to make your own websites and share your content the way it was done before Facebook.
And nobody will read them if you don't integrate with Facebook and other social media--where you will be censored.
> But it's the people that are at fault here, they are the ones that let themselves get hoodwinked.
Did you really claim that scam victims are to blame when they get scammed, and not the scammers? I'm all for avoiding naiveté, but that doesn't excuse the actions of manipulative people and organizations.
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#24I feel "everyone" being afraid of words has destroyed the open web. Edit this, censor that, surpress this, etc etc.
Complacency and intolerance of other ideas is and always will be the issue.
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#25Facebook hasn't destroyed the web - it's still there and functioning fine. Hyperlinks still work. What FB has done is made it easier for the lazy to connect with and stay within their own interest groups. FB has made it easy for people to ignore negative information with tons of cat pictures (I am as guilty as anyone for that) and cheerful little meaningless quotes. It's made it easier to post misinformation and spre…
well said. FB just makes it easy for lazy people to use the Internet. It turns out that most people don't want much more of a challenge beyond just reading their feeds.
plus. it's blue. people like blue.
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#26Totally agree. Facebook is dotcom equivalent of AOL. Hopefully it goes away.
Free/open markets create powerful incumbents that eventually become big enough to turn themselves into a monopoly. There's no reason that the web wouldn't work the same way.
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#27why couldn't we create a decentralized social network. could such a thing exist?
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#28Facebook hasn't destroyed the web - it's still there and functioning fine. Hyperlinks still work. What FB has done is made it easier for the lazy to connect with and stay within their own interest groups. FB has made it easy for people to ignore negative information with tons of cat pictures (I am as guilty as anyone for that) and cheerful little meaningless quotes. It's made it easier to post misinformation and spre…
"Hyperlinks still work."
I observe that this is increasingly no longer true. Links no longer show you when you have visited them. Chains of 301s are common. Tracking links are now the norm. The link text almost never is where you are actually going. Pages automatically redirect you based on a ton of probed information (mobile, desktop, tablet, logged in to G+, logged into facebook, etc), and even normal browser shortcuts to interact with them are no longer working correctly with so many weird effing span and divs being recast into "links" that never work right, in css of all things.
No no. The modern hyperlink is totally busted. I blame the framework hockers and the halfass web"app" community.
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#29why couldn't we create a decentralized social network. could such a thing exist?
https://diasporafoundation.org/ and http://pump.io/ are attempts at that.
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#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
Agreed. Facebook is pretty irrelevant with the High School crowd. Every has smart phones with apps that offer far less friction for communicating.
High school students will start using Facebook once they realize they can't keep "connected" with their high school friends that are studying in a bunch of different universities.
Don't they seem to have moved past serving that core audience?